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It's hard to be hip over thirty ... and other tragedies of married life; and, People & other aggravations

de Judith Viorst

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Bringing together some of the best of Judith Viorst's witty and perceptive poetry--and featuring the illustrations from the original edition by John Alcorn--Viorst explores the all-too-true ironies and absurdities of being a woman in the modern world. Whether she's finding herself or finding a sitter, contemplating her sex life as she rubs hormone night cream on her face, or wrestling with the contradiction of falling in love with a man her parents would actually approve of, Viorst transforms the familiar events of daily life into poems that make you laugh with recognition. Here is the young single girl leaving her parents' home for life in the big city ("No I do not believe in free love/And yes I will be home for Sunday dinners"). Here is the aspiring bohemian with an expensive liberal arts education, getting coffee and taking dictation, "Hoping that someday someone will be impressed/With all I know." Here is that married woman, coping with motherhood ("The tricycles are cluttering my foyer/The Pop Tart crumbs are sprinkled on my soul") and fantasy affairs ("I could imagine cryptic conversations, clandestine martinis...and me explaining that long kisses clog my sinuses") and all-too-real family reunions ("Four aunts in pain taking pills/One cousin in analysis taking notes"). And here she is at mid-life, wondering whether a woman who used to wear a "Ban the Bomb" button can find happiness being a person with a set of fondue forks, a fish poacher, and a wok. Every step of the way, It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life demonstrates once and for all that no one understands American women coming of age like Judith Viorst. *It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life is a reissue of the previous collection originally titled When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices.… (mais)
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Humorous poetry from a very female perspective. ( )
  Karen74Leigh | Sep 4, 2019 |
I love Judith Viorst's poems! They make me laugh, and I love the voice of her narrator. ( )
  JillKB | Apr 4, 2013 |
I've had half a dozen Persephone books on my to-read shelf for, well, I don't want to say how long. Joining the ROOT (Read Our Own Tomes) challenge was the kick I needed to take down one of the smart grey dust-covered volumes and risk having it look slightly less perfect after I read it. I'm really glad I did, because Viorst's poetry puts a rueful smile on my face when it isn't making me laugh out loud.

Basically it's about the collision of youthful idealism with 'mature' materialism and married life ('The woman in my head is young and perfect. / The real one has to buy supportive hose.') Does every woman at some point look around at her life and despair at the gap between youthful imaginings and present circumstances? I know I have (and I'm not even over thirty for another nine months). Viorst's poetry won't tell you how to be 'Heathcliff's Cathy, Lady Brett, / Nicole or Dominique or Scarlett O'Hara' but it does teach us to look at ourselves with gentle humour - a great antidote for the almost-midlife-crisis. ( )
1 vote Erratic_Charmer | Dec 30, 2012 |
At first glance, this is not an obvious Persephone book as it consists of two verse collections by an American poet of the late 60s. However, I can see why they picked it to publish as, despite the superficial trappings of 1960s American suburbia, the situations that Viorst wryly writes about are very universal. Witty and pithy and very true to life, I enjoyed this volume very much and highly recommend it. ( )
  kaggsy | Jun 3, 2012 |
(25 December 2011 – from Sorcha)

I have given this slim volume of poems to several people over the years, and leafed through the easy-to-read verses – in fact I read about half of this on Christmas Day when I unwrapped it! Deceptively simple but poignant and perceptive as well as funny, the poems chart the often startling disconnect between young love and young and not-so-young marriage with children. Firmly rooted in the 1960s, with some cultural references that are not as immediately accessible as they would have been at the time of first publication, they also have a timeless, rueful quality that makes them eminently readable today.
1 vote LyzzyBee | May 13, 2012 |
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Bringing together some of the best of Judith Viorst's witty and perceptive poetry--and featuring the illustrations from the original edition by John Alcorn--Viorst explores the all-too-true ironies and absurdities of being a woman in the modern world. Whether she's finding herself or finding a sitter, contemplating her sex life as she rubs hormone night cream on her face, or wrestling with the contradiction of falling in love with a man her parents would actually approve of, Viorst transforms the familiar events of daily life into poems that make you laugh with recognition. Here is the young single girl leaving her parents' home for life in the big city ("No I do not believe in free love/And yes I will be home for Sunday dinners"). Here is the aspiring bohemian with an expensive liberal arts education, getting coffee and taking dictation, "Hoping that someday someone will be impressed/With all I know." Here is that married woman, coping with motherhood ("The tricycles are cluttering my foyer/The Pop Tart crumbs are sprinkled on my soul") and fantasy affairs ("I could imagine cryptic conversations, clandestine martinis...and me explaining that long kisses clog my sinuses") and all-too-real family reunions ("Four aunts in pain taking pills/One cousin in analysis taking notes"). And here she is at mid-life, wondering whether a woman who used to wear a "Ban the Bomb" button can find happiness being a person with a set of fondue forks, a fish poacher, and a wok. Every step of the way, It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life demonstrates once and for all that no one understands American women coming of age like Judith Viorst. *It's Hard to be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life is a reissue of the previous collection originally titled When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices.

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